Welsh government offers £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minorities

25 comments

1. I clicked the link and read the entire article because the headline made me think ‘nah, this can surely not be legal/real.’

   Silly me.

2. I feel the DE&I bait headlines are everywhere right now, but they really are genuine.

3. Do they do the same for male applicants, noting they are hugely under represented in the teaching profession?

4. Can you imagine the outcry if this was the other way around or males were getting more than females? Just asking…

5. That’s fine, just say you are 1/16th whatever. There’s no mechanism for you to prove it and if they start saying you are not the right shade or percentage then that’s an easy discrimination lawsuit.

6. > The Welsh government said “We are committed to increasing the number of teachers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds so that our young people can recognise themselves and their own experiences within their leaders.”

   I thought we were supposed to be promoting equality and diversity in society?

   An equal and truly diverse society would see us demonstrating to our young people that they may be taught by teachers of any race, and not necessarily races which they “recognise themselves… within”?

   This seems farcical. Just hire the best people for the job. Those will be the best people to nurture our young people, not the ones that are simply there to tick the quota checkboxes.

7. Paying someone less for the same job is the epitome of institutional racism.

8. Same as West Yorkshire Police only recruiting BAME officers. Pathetic and stupid.

9. As a Black person I’m confused. While reform is on the rise ( I am obviously no fan of them) , the left … does this? Wales doesn’t need more people of colour as teachers. If employment is fair and you teach the young children about diverse stories and acceptance. What’s the problem? Wales is less diverse than England . It’s 90% white . We’ve got bigger fish to fry

10. We must admit our country is institutionally racist against its native people

11. This is how nutters like Trump get elected. I wish they’d pull back on this nonsense but they clearly don’t see the writing on the wall.

12. Police now teachers, government posts will be mainly non white in a country which is predominantly white according to official figures.

    2 tier policing, 2 tier teaching but no tears for white people

13. Discriminating someone’s pay due to their ethnicity and race? There’s a naughty -ist ending word that’s on the tip on my tongue…

    World’s getting weird boyos

14. Obviously racist if true, I feel like lawsuits are coming!

15. Oh that thing we keep getting told never happens, happening again!

16. It’s that thing happening again that everybody says doesn’t happen or argue it being completely fair.

    I wonder what effect having a minority teacher actually makes, in my south London school I only ever had 1 white English teacher for a class (I’m not white) and I can’t say my teachers ethnicity would ever mean anything for me. Not one was where I was from anyway, what mattered the most was their method of teaching and likability. I’d rather government money be spent better.

17. Male teachers are a minority, do they count?

    As a ginger male, I best get 90k

18. The excesses of the left were responsible for Trump and the UK is heading the same way. The overcorrection is coming and it won’t be good for anyone.

19. “We are committed to increasing the number of teachers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds so that our young people can recognise themselves and their own experiences within their leaders.”

    Peak clown polemics. Saying that in order to be “recognised” young people must be taught by teachers who happen to have the same skin colour as them is just textbook racism.

    This country has gone completely mad.

20. Are they now trying to actively push racial tensions on purpose?

    Maybe people from ethnic minorities have more sense than to work in a horrible job..

21. [removed]

22. Now I don’t know my football but does anyone remember that beautiful video of the famous footballer being reunited with his old school teacher ? Were he took his hat off and started crying giving him a hug ? The footballer is black and the teacher white and the footballer said he was a fantastic teacher that helped him ? The footballer as a child didn’t care about the race of his teacher just that his teacher cared about him and believed in him and that stayed with him all these years later. What they are doing here will destroy stories like this and will cause true division. This all feels intentional.

23. How is this not discrimination  if you pay one person more than another based on the colour of your skin?

24. So, the Welsh “Anti rascist policy” includes offering non-white applicants £5,000 more than white applicants?

25. More blatant racism. Oh look its another labour controlled region

Comments are closed.